The biggest advantage, with striker fired pistols, to me is uniform trigger pull weight. They are every bit as reliable as hammer fired pistols. I also don't think the "double strike" theory holds water. Why would I want to waste my time with a round that has already proven ineffective? I'd rather tap, rack and shoot.
Striker fired advantages?
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EOD Guy in VA
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Absolutely agree on the second-strike issue. It's an extremely rare occurrence with quality personal defense ammo and when it does, it's an easy fix.
HippieMagic
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I have to agree with the sigma's horrible trigger... it is like a nightmare.
hillbillydelux
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Alot of posts seem to say "consistant trigger pull" is the advantage. I really cant agree with that as an advantage. 1911 has a very consistant trigger pull and is much better than any DA pistol. My DA revolvers have a consistant trigger pull. Hell my single action revolvers have consistant trigger pull. In fact if I owned a gun that had a different trigger pull every time I shot it I would sell it. What I dont understand is if they are any safer than a SA pistol. Since I have never owned a striker fired gun I am not familiar with all the details on this. Do they have a firing pin safety that relies on the trigger pull to depress a plunger in the slide like a sig? If so I would say they are a little safer than a 1911.
Guy de Loimbard
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I just picked up a Security Six last week, and have noticed at least two distinct trigger pulls while firing DA. Three of the chambers are nice and smooth and the other three stack towards the end of the pull. What is it that causes this?
rcmodel
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Manufacture can make them for .99 cents and sell the guns for $599.00.
That's the only advantage I can think of.
Uniform trigger? Yea that too.
Uniformly too heavy!
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easyg
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I've never experienced that with any revolver.
SaMx
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the gun being striker fired has nothing to do with whether it's double action, single action, or partially cocked or whatever. Striker fired rifles were mentioned earlier, they're pretty common, but they're single action, so they have a light, crisp pull and need a manual safety.
The advantage of a striker over a hammer is that the striker can't get caught up on something the way a hammer can. The advantage of a hammer fired gun is that you can easily see if it's cocked or not, and you can cock the hammer manually without racking the slide.
The advantage of a striker over a hammer is that the striker can't get caught up on something the way a hammer can. The advantage of a hammer fired gun is that you can easily see if it's cocked or not, and you can cock the hammer manually without racking the slide.
OrangePwrx9
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15 or so years ago, many/most cops carried revolvers. Rapid fire meant double-action with the long pull to cock and release the hammer. There were no safeties on revolvers, the long heavy trigger pull was considered sufficient safety by itself.
One of the big advantages of DAO pistols for police departments was that they were easier for revolver guys to transition to. No safety to bother with; only a long pull was needed to make it fire. Other than loading, unloading, and checking; revolver training was directly tranferrable to the DAO pistol.
Now DAO doesn't automatically mean striker-fired. But because there is no longer any need for a hammer, the best DAO pistols took advantage of the striker-fired design to make a more shootable and economical weapon.
As a revolver guy myself, I found the DAO pistol easy to get comfortable with. The same aiming disciplines used for double action revolver marksmanship transferred directly to the pistol. Not only that but the DA pulls on the pistols were often nicer than most revolvers.
The only striker fired gun I own is an early Kahr K9 that I've had since the mid '90s. Very pleasant and natural to shoot and extremely accurate.
Bob
One of the big advantages of DAO pistols for police departments was that they were easier for revolver guys to transition to. No safety to bother with; only a long pull was needed to make it fire. Other than loading, unloading, and checking; revolver training was directly tranferrable to the DAO pistol.
Now DAO doesn't automatically mean striker-fired. But because there is no longer any need for a hammer, the best DAO pistols took advantage of the striker-fired design to make a more shootable and economical weapon.
As a revolver guy myself, I found the DAO pistol easy to get comfortable with. The same aiming disciplines used for double action revolver marksmanship transferred directly to the pistol. Not only that but the DA pulls on the pistols were often nicer than most revolvers.
The only striker fired gun I own is an early Kahr K9 that I've had since the mid '90s. Very pleasant and natural to shoot and extremely accurate.
Bob
EOD Guy in VA
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rcmodel ... Of all the striker-fired pistols on the market from several manufacturers how many of them did you find "too heavy" based on your experience?
My S&W M&Ps, Walther P99, Glock G30, and Springfield XD don't fit that description.
EOD Guy in VA
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hillbillydelux... What I believe most of us are saying is that it is consistent as compared with DA/SA trigger systems. Of course, there are a lot of light DAO triggers such as SIG's DAK and HK's LEM that provide the same thing for hammer-based systems and share this advantage, just as SAO 1911's do.
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